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When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Any Ethical Explosion Going Growth Happening Our Population Population Growth Prevent Questions Table Two Us Way

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With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

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Topics: Against Become Best Defense Everywhere Go Might Our Surveillance Technology Tracking Us

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It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: About Apocalypse Confess End End Of The World Fascination Incredible Stories True Will World

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There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: About Because Die Event Evidence Extinction Fastest Happen Hard Headed Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Know Mass Might Out Over Percent Period Planet Sixth Species Sure Thousands Thousands Of Years Where Would Years You

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Humans have obviously contributed a great deal of carbon to the atmosphere. So we are warming the planet up.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Atmosphere Carbon Deal Great Great Deal Humans Obviously Planet Up Warming

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Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: About Alien Avatar Because Becoming Critics Dances Epic Fantasy Going Great Great Leader Guilt Guy Just Latest Leader Native Old Version White Wolves

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Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: About Alien Apartheid Avatar Come Debate District Down Earlier Fantasy Film Flick Like Matter Question Race Regardless Released Undeniable Where Whether Year You

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Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Because Before Exciting Fiction Perspectives Promises Radically Science Science Fiction Seen Show Universe Unlike World

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RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: About Culture Directly Format Grew Idea Internet Know Many Nothing Online Out People Today

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When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Amazing Born Bring Discussions Eclipsed Late Many People Programmers Them Thus Wanted Web Websites World 1990S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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